(Reuters) -The retreat from Russia by Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Grande Armée in 1812 was a cataclysmic event that ...

When Napoleon Bonaparte led his Grand Army into Russia in 1812, he commanded the largest military force Europe had ever seen — an estimated 600,000 men. By the time his battered troops stumbled out of ...

Researchers who analyzed DNA from the teeth of soldiers who died during the retreat from Moscow say they have identified two diseases that devastated the emperor’s vaunted Grande Armée.

By 1812, Napoleon was all powerful. Nearly all of Europe was under his control. He had succeeded in forbidding most of the continent from trading with Britain in an effort to bring the island nation ...